While there are numerous variations, stockless anchors consist of a set of heavy flukes connected by a pivot or ball and socket joint to a shank.

Grant participated in Lifetime's 1st Annual " Girls & Guitars " benefit, singing numerous songs, including a duet with Melissa Etheridge on " You Can Sleep While I Drive ".

While competitive basketball is carefully regulated, numerous variations of basketball have developed for casual play.

While only Revelation speaks of a period of a thousand years for Christ ’ s rule on Earth, there are numerous other prophecies in both testaments concerning a future age of peace.

While Compaq shareholders unanimously approved the deal, there was a public proxy battle within HP as the deal was strongly opposed by numerous large HP shareholders, including the sons of the company founders, Walter Hewlett and David W. Packard, as well as the California Public Employees ’ Retirement System ( Calpers ) and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.

While numerous theories and principles are related to the Fermi paradox, the most closely related is the Drake equation.

While there, Young compiled extensive data and made numerous recommendations, even persuading the Hondurans to hire a New York police lieutenant to reorganize their police forces.

While in Paris, Rousseau became a close friend of French philosopher Diderot and, beginning with some articles on music in 1749, contributed numerous articles to Diderot and D ' Alembert's great Encyclopédie, the most famous of which was an article on political economy written in 1755.

While in Rome during the winter of 1820-21, Severn wrote numerous letters about Keats to their mutual friends in England, in particular William Haslam and Charles Armitage Brown, who then shared them with other members of the Keats circle, including the poet's fiancée, Fanny Brawne.

While abroad, Lindh sent numerous emails to his family.

While a condition of MLB awarding the Pilots to Seattle was that Sick's had to be expanded to 30, 000 seats by the start of the 1969 season, only 17, 000 seats were ready because of numerous delays.

While humans are allowed to swim with manatees in one area of Florida, there have been numerous charges of people harassing and disturbing the manatees.

While numerous tribes used captive enemies as servants and slaves, they also often adopted younger captives into their tribes to replace members who had died.

While working toward his goal of improved insecticide, Schrader experimented with numerous compounds, eventually leading to the preparation of tabun.

While on Sado, he won many devoted converts and wrote two of his most important doctrinal treatises, the Kaimoku Shō ( 開目抄: " On the Opening of the Eyes " ) and the Kanjin no Honzon Shō ( 観心本尊抄: " The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind ") as well as numerous letters and minor treatises whose content containing critical components of his teaching.

While Fox launched an investigation, Abdul received numerous calls of support from celebrities, including Oprah Winfrey and Kelly Ripa ; Barbara Walters even addressed the camera during an episode of ABC's The View to say she was sad to be part of an operation that would report Clark's flimsy tabloid claims under the guise of a news story.

While pyramids are associated with Egypt, the nation of Sudan has 220 extant pyramids, the most numerous in the world.

While their subjects were composed of numerous ethnic groups ( such as Italians, Romanians, Hungarians, etc.

While the public sphere is generally an integral component of social interpretations of the Enlightenment, numerous historians have brought into question whether the public sphere was bourgeois, oppositional to the state, independent from the state, or egalitarian.

While continuing to be the main method of elections in the Republic of Ireland and for some elections in Australia, it has been widely used in numerous corporations and organizations, and has been employed in local elections in a few jurisdictions of the United States.

While the Old Norse month name ýlir is similarly attested, the Old Norse corpus also contains numerous references to an event by the Old Norse form of the name, jól.

" While his opponents called his powerful network of supporters the " Tuskegee Machine ," Washington maintained control because of his ability to gain support of numerous groups including influential whites and the black business, educational and religious communities nationwide.

While classical in scope, the opening section of the setting demonstrates Pergolesi's mastery of the Italian baroque durezze e ligature style, characterized by numerous suspensions over a faster, conjunct bassline.

While on his guard against his northern foes, Gediminas from 1316 to 1340 was aggrandizing himself at the expense of the numerous Slavonic principalities in the south and east, whose incessant conflicts with each other wrought the ruin of them all.

While plains zebras are much more plentiful, one subspecies, the quagga, became extinct in the late 19th century-though there is currently a plan, called the Quagga Project, that aims to breed zebras that are phenotypically similar to the quagga in a process called breeding back.

While the status of the Asiatic lion ( P. l. persica ) as a subspecies is generally accepted, the systematic relationships among African lions are still not completely resolved.

While the species is by no means endangered, IUCN lists insufficient data to make an assessment for two of the subspecies.

While overall widespread and numerous, some of its subspecies are rare and one ( or two, depending on taxonomy ) has already gone extinct.

While domesticated rats are not so far removed from their wild counterparts as to justify a distinct subspecies ( compare Canis lupus familiaris and Capra aegagrus hircus ), there are several significant differences that set them apart, the most apparent of which is colouring.

While Ptelea trifoliata is most often treated as a single species with subspecies and / or varieties in different distribution ranges, some botanists treat the various Hoptrees as a group of four or more closely related species:

While there are no subspecies, all populations show great individual variation in colouring, and the birds gradually become paler and greyer towards the east of the range.

While the species as a whole is not threatened, some subspecies have declined.

While C. texanus is the only species within its genus, it does have two subspecies.

While the validity of these subspecies has been questioned, and is not yet supported by any molecular data, analysis of the animals ' calls does indicate a differentiation between different populations.

While no subspecies are diagnosable in this bird, mtDNA haplotype data indicates that during the last glacial period there were two allopatric populations of this species.

While some authorities recognized as many as 11 subspecies, others only recognize eight:

While some populations ( subspecies ) are decreasing, others will remain unchanged in the long term if large, healthy populations continue to persist in a substantial number of national parks, equivalent reserves and hunting zones in southern and eastern Africa ".

While the species as whole is never endangered, this subspecies had come close to extinction.

While the male of most subspecies are scarlet to orange with black upper parts, the females are usually yellow with greyish olive upper parts.

While some people misinterpret the term subspecies to be interchangeable with race this is technically incorrect in a biological view point, since the specimens actually have to have different DNA and have conflicts with breeding, not merely different traits.

While this has no profound implications for taxonomy of this species-apart from suggesting that two other proposed subspecies are actually just local forms at present -, it renders the use of molecular clocks in Testudo even more dubious and unreliable than they are for turtles in general

* Aru Island Eclectus Parrot ( Eclectus roratus aruensis ) – While some believe this bird is doubtfully valid from polychloros others believe it is a distinct subspecies, as the rich yellow on the tail tip of the male often is infused with pink, orange or bright red.

* Biak Island Eclectus Parrot ( Eclectus roratus biaki ) – While some believe the Biak Eclectus is doubtfully valid from polychloros others believe it is a distinct subspecies due to the size difference, vocalization and behavior differences.

While the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) mostly only categorizes whole species or subspecies, assessing the global risk of extinction, in some cases it also assesses the risks to stocks and populations, especially to preserve genetic diversity.

While preliminary genetic testing with non-nuclear DNA indicates a close relationship with the eastern chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii ) subspecies of the common chimpanzee, a range of behaviors that are more closely related to those of gorillas have greatly intrigued primatologists from around the globe.

While the exact number of taxa involved is disputed, most of the " species " detected by the DNA barcoding study seem to be nothing more than morphs or incipient subspecies, coupled with a serious undererstimation of variation.

While the three subspecies of Linnaea borealis are all considered widespread, abundant, and secure in their main, northern ranges, all three subspecies are of conservation concern near the subspecies ' range edges or at more southerly, disjunct sites.